Revealingly, I think, it is attracting an even larger audience than "The Social Network," a movie of equal quality with reviews to match and more timely cultural cachet.
Both novels are polished to a gleam, and their savvy, self-aware references to fashion and music and other timely cultural touchstones would meet the standards of any mean girl worth her salt.
But the arrival of two foreign babies brings new, perhaps more timely, considerations: cultural differences, tolerance and assimilation, and, above all, the idea of what it means to be an American.
A timelier example of cultural appropriation in music is white Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, who, after gaining popularity in American hip-hop, has generated ongoing debate over her authenticity as an agent of hip-hop culture.
And the short story may provide a timely antidote to the cultural bloat of the past decade, when it often seemed that every novel needed to be 500 pages long and every movie had to last three hours — or four years, if it took the form of a cable series.
When it came to advertising, his eye for cultural currency was timely, too.
Festival director Geoffrey Gilmore said: "This year we've seen a number of films that deal sensitively with the timely and complex issues of cultural assimilation and community.
With a highly anticipated summit between President Obama and President Xi Jinping scheduled to begin at Sunnylands, Calif., on Saturday, the commemorative tour serves as a timely reminder of the deep cultural ties between the two countries.
Kerlin Gallery, to 21 Mar RC The seven artists here, who have created displays of art and artefacts tracking British social and cultural life, provide a timely reminder of the past's impact on the present.
The book, with its design inspired by Soviet film stills, is both a chic cultural artifact and a timely account of a popular uprising that has many parallels in the Arab Spring.
Thus, overcoming potential barriers to timely follow-up such as age, cultural beliefs, and literacy played an important role at this site.
